Dutch-led commission investigating MH17 flight crash earlier received requested technical documents - Almaz-Antey
MOSCOW. Oct 13 (Interfax) - Russian experts have provided the international commission investigating the July 17, 2014 Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crash in Ukraine with documents concerning Buk missiles that were produced in the Soviet Union, including classified information, Mikhail Malyshevsky, an advisor to the general designer of Russia's missile systems manufacturer Almaz-Antey, has said.
"The concern received a request [from the international commission] to provide additional technical characteristics in order to specify certain strategic modeling nuances," he told a press conference in Moscow on Tuesday.
In this context Almaz-Antey general director Yan Novikov "issued an instruction and the issue of declassifying certain materials was sorted out within the shortest possible time," he said.
"The matter is that until recently some of the materials on these missiles [Buk] remained classified," Malyshevsky said.
Copies of certain documents, including design and technical documents, were prepared, he added.
"We informed them [international commission members] of the preliminary results of the first phase of the experiment and proposed coming to our territory, should such a need arise, and familiarizing themselves with the initial unprocessed data of the experiment," he said.
The Russian side is also ready to present the program and methods of holding these experiments, Malyshevsky said. Furthermore, Russia proposed carrying out the second experiment together with international experts.
"But it so happened that none of them [international experts] wanted to stage the second experiment with us," he added.